Automobile-wheel



0. A. PARKER.

AUTOMOBILE WHEEL.

APPLICATION HLED MAR. 17.4917.

2 SHEETS-SHEET I.

Patented Mar. 16, 1920.

ofA. PARKER.

AUTOMOBILEJWHEEL; APPLICATION FILED 12.17.1917.

1,333,674. Patented M31.16,1920.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2- ORREL A. PARKER, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

AU'ro'MomLn-wHnnn Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 16, 1920.

Application filed March 17,1917. Serial No. 155,487.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, ORREL A. PARKER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, haveinvented a certain new and useful Improvement in Automobile Wheels, ofwhich the following is a full, clear, and exact description, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings.

v This invention relates generally to automobile wheels and moreparticularly to the means for or manner of securing the demountable tirecarrying rim to the folly of said wheel.

Various means have been devised for se nearly all of such devices arecomposed of or embody a number of parts operating upon the rim at alarge number of separated points, and great care and skill must beexercised in manipulating these separate devices in order to secure therim in a true plane and properly "centered.

The object of the present invention therefore is to provide 'a rimfastening means which shall embody and require a minimum number of partsand which will correspondingly eliminate the chances of improperlypositioning the rim upon the telly. The invention consists in the novelfeatures of construction hereinafter fully described and pointed out inthe claims.

In the drawings forming a part of this specification Figure 1 is a faceview of a Wheel embodying my invention; Fig. 2 is an enlarged View(broken) on line 22 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a similar view showing a slightmodification; Fig. i is a rearface view of the construction shown inFigs. v1 and 2; and Fig. 5 is a detail section showing a still furthermodification.

In the practical embodiment of my invention I employ a wheel body A,one-half of the folly A being concentric and the remaining half Aslightly eccxentric. This eccentricity being produced by removing aportion of the folly, the greatest eccentricity being at the point A Thewheel thus formed is provided with a telly band B having the inclined orcurved flange B at the inner or back edge thereof, and this telly bandis also formed with a short flange B along the outer edge at a pointopposite the portion of greatest eccentricity, this flange B being aboutone-fifth of the concentric portion of the wheel body. This flange B canbe left OK if desired. The tire carrying rim 0 is of the usual or anyapproved construction and when the tire D is arranged thereon the valvestem E will project through the valve stem opening in the rim and alsothrough thevalve stem opening in the wheel body. The rim may also beprovided with the usual or any approved form of driving lug or dowel F.The rim 0 is made in the form of a circle as true as it is possibleto'commercially make the same and when placed upon the wheel body,one-half of said rim will fit closely upon theconcentric portion of thewheel body while-the remaining portion of said rim will be spaced aslight distance from the eccentric portion of said wheel body, thegreatest space being at the point A and gradually decreasing in bothdirections until it reiaches a point where the rim and felly bandcontactl v v For the purpose of taking up this clearance and at the sametime drawing the rim portion G bearing against the outer edge of the rimso that as the. nut is tightened and the wedge clip forced inwardly, therim will be tensioned and at the same time shifted laterally so as tobring the same into proper axial position and into engagement with theflange B at the inner edge of the folly band. The upper or concentricportion ofthe rim and felly band are of course in close contact witheach other from the start, and the tensioning and positioning of thelower or eccentric portion serves to firmly bind the upper half of rimupon the concentric portion of the wheel body.

The center wedge can be made somewhat thicker than the side wedge owingto the difference in eccentricity, or all wedges can made of the samethickness and the folly band slightly depressed at the points where theside wedges will engage.

In operation, in order to place and fasten to permit the rim to swingon.

as shown in Fi 1 one recess or slot the rim upon the wheel body, thewheel bQLljf is turned so as to bring the concentric portion uppermostand the front flange portion B at the top. The rim is then placed uponthe top of the telly band, the valve stem and driving lugs fitting intotheir proper operv ings and recesses and the bottom portion oi the rimis then pern'iitted to drop back upon the lower half of the Wheel bodythe Wedges being of course turned inward so as The wedge clips are thenturned out and the nuts tightened so as to force said Wedges intoengagement with "the lower portion oi the ri H1 thereby tensioning saidrim and positioning it laterally and at the same time drawing; downthoupper portion firmly upon. the wncentric portion. of the Wheel body. Bymeans of this construction it will be that "it only necessary to employthree bolts and Wed! thereby eliminating all the remaining ..asteningdevices and making in'ipossihle throa in; the rim out of plane or offcenter.

The flange B cut away opposite the flange B as shown in Figs 2 and. 4,and if desired the flange B can be omitted entirely and the heads of thebolts H can be forged or upset to provide Wedges H, shown in Fig. 5, andagainst which the rim can he forced by the Wedges G.

When two separate dowels are employed 1 the folly and telly hand, mustbe elongated to ward the other one in order to permit the bottoming onof the rim with the two dowels.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. A. Wheel bodyhaving a folly band a portion of which is concentric and the re mainingportion eccentric, adenioinitahle tire carrying r'nn adapted to fit uponthe said telly hand, one portion oi said rim contacting with theconcentric portion of telly band and rim fastening means adapted to beinserted between said rim and eccentric por tion of the folly. I

2. The combination with a Wheel body having a folly band one portion ofwhich is a I I concentric and the other portion eccentrlc, of ademonntahle tire carrying rim circular in 'iform and adapted to fitthereon and 23. The combination of a Wheel body having a folly hand oneportion of which is concentric and the remaining portion eccentric, of ademountahle tire carrying rim adapted to fit upon said telly band and alocking element carried hythe Wheel body and. adapted to exert radial yasure upon that portion of the rim opposite the eccentric portion of thefolly bend thereby binding said rim upon the COHCQ-lltl'll) portion ofthe folly band tensionina" the rim as a whole and also acting later ,yto pr ition the tensioned rim upon ly hand...

' a corohina-tion of a Wheel body having a i hard, one portion of whichis concenti 1c and the remaining portion eccen trio, of a circulardeinonntaldie tire carrying rini adapted to fit upon said telly band anda locking element having a tapering portion adapted to engage said riinat the eccentric portion or the telly hand, to tension rim and positionit laterally.

It The combirotion with a. wheel body having a telly hand one portion ofwhich is trim and the other portion eccentric pl her a flange at theinner "tango secured at the l'v of the concennp; rim adapted to fit uponsaid band, and lockingelements hai ing tapering portions adapted to beinserted between the rim and eccentric portion of the telly band wherebyone halt oi the rin is drawn down upon the concentric Portion of thebandand radiall and positioned laterally.

In tesdni-ony whereof I hereunto afiix my signature.

ORBEL A. PARKER.

portion, of a circular demountable tire the remaining portion of the rimis tension'ed I

